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Iowa State is NOT in the Blue Ribbon Top 25

It’s time to start thinking about hoops season. Preseason magazines are on the shelves and believe it or not, media days are just around the corner.

The first legitimate preseason top 25 I have seen was released on Wednesday and Steve Prohm’s Cyclones were not included.

The annual Blue Ribbon yearbook is a Bible of sorts to hoops junkies. Think of what Phil Steele does with college football – this is essentially basketball’s version.

Iowa State is not ranked in the top 25 by Blue Ribbon.

Expectations tend to drop when you lose a player like Georges Niang. Still I think that Iowa State is very much in the top 25 conversation and suspect you will see the Cyclones popping up in preseason rankings before too long.

Plus, the Big 12 is going to be down so wins are going to be there. Blue Ribbon only has two Big 12 teams in the top 25, Kansas at No. 3 and West Virginia at No. 21.

Chris Williams

Chris was hired as Cyclone Fanatic’s publisher in the fall of 2009. He is Iowa State football's postgame show host on the Cyclone Radio Network and can be heard daily from 4-7 on Des Moines' top-rated sports station, 1460 KXnO. Williams, a 2007 graduate of Iowa State’s Greenlee School of Journalism, is the former publisher of the old CycloneNation.com (Scout.com). He has also written for the Des Moines Register, the Ames Tribune, CycloneReport.com and is the former sports director at KMA Radio. When Williams isn’t working, you can usually find him doing something outdoors with his wife Ashley, daughter Camryn, and Golden Retriever Dierks. He enjoys golfing, boating, country music, the Minnesota Vikings, Atlanta Braves and is passionate about any and all motor sports so finding Williams at a local dirt track is very common.

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